The Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (EPA): Factor structure and construct validity across three German samples

Autor: Sabrina Schneider, Dahlnym Yoon, Andreas Mokros, Maximilian Fritz Schwarz, Angelina Baster, Denis Koehler
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Psychological assessment. 34(8)
ISSN: 1939-134X
Popis: Psychopathy is deemed an important construct in forensic settings. Consequently, its theoretical basis and measurement are relevant to researchers but also to criminal justice administrators and decision-makers. The Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (EPA) is a recently developed self-report scale designed to measure psychopathic traits based on the five-factor model, one of the most comprehensive frameworks of general personality. Recent research provided initial support for the reliability and construct validity of the EPA, and exploratory factor analyses yielded a four-factor structure across different samples from the United States. Independent and confirmatory assessments of the construct validity and factor structure of the EPA are, however, pending. Across three independent, non-American samples (accumulated
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